1 00:00:00,766 --> 00:00:03,133 (light cheerful music) 2 00:00:05,300 --> 00:00:07,333 - Welcome to the "Volunteer Woodworker." 3 00:00:07,333 --> 00:00:09,366 I'm your host, Charles Brock. 4 00:00:09,366 --> 00:00:12,166 Come with me as we drive the back roads, 5 00:00:12,166 --> 00:00:16,733 bringing you the story of America's finest woodworkers. 6 00:00:16,733 --> 00:00:20,800 (light cheerful music continues) 7 00:00:26,633 --> 00:00:30,700 (light cheerful music continues) 8 00:00:35,100 --> 00:00:39,366 We're going to Columbia, Tennessee to meet Randy Walters. 9 00:00:39,366 --> 00:00:43,833 Randy is one of the most prolific wood carvers ever. 10 00:00:43,833 --> 00:00:46,533 He is not one for just one style. 11 00:00:46,533 --> 00:00:49,000 He does pictures in relief, 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,766 figures both historical and whimsical, 13 00:00:51,766 --> 00:00:54,166 and he does architectural elements 14 00:00:54,166 --> 00:00:58,533 like linen fold panels and castle gargoyles. 15 00:00:58,533 --> 00:01:01,333 Let's meet Randy Walters. 16 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,733 - [Announcer] "Volunteer Woodworker" is funded in part by. 17 00:01:05,733 --> 00:01:08,300 Since 1970, Whiteside Machine Company 18 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:10,800 has been producing industrial grade router bits 19 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:12,500 in Claremont, North Carolina. 20 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:15,233 Whiteside makes carbide bits for edge forming, 21 00:01:15,233 --> 00:01:17,733 grooving, and CNC application. 22 00:01:17,733 --> 00:01:20,533 Learn more at whitesiderouterbits.com. 23 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:25,733 Real Milk Paint Company makes VOC-free non-toxic milk paint 24 00:01:25,733 --> 00:01:28,000 available in 56 colors. 25 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,266 Milk paint creates a matte wood finish 26 00:01:30,266 --> 00:01:32,866 that can be distressed for an antique look. 27 00:01:32,866 --> 00:01:35,533 (gentle music) 28 00:01:35,533 --> 00:01:37,800 Good Wood Nashville designs custom furniture 29 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,400 and is a supplier of vintage hardwoods. 30 00:01:41,566 --> 00:01:43,733 Keri Price with Keller Williams Realty 31 00:01:43,733 --> 00:01:46,033 has been assisting middle Tennessee home buyers 32 00:01:46,033 --> 00:01:48,800 and sellers since 2013. 33 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:50,366 Mayfield Hardwood Lumber, 34 00:01:51,833 --> 00:01:54,533 supplying Appalachian hardwoods worldwide. 35 00:01:56,900 --> 00:01:58,400 Anna's Creative Lens. 36 00:02:02,566 --> 00:02:03,966 - Randy. - Yes, sir. 37 00:02:03,966 --> 00:02:06,433 - Yeah, this is just like being 38 00:02:06,433 --> 00:02:09,800 at the Randy Walters Carving Museum 39 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,400 or Randy Walters "This is Your Life." 40 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,966 We have your work all around this room. 41 00:02:15,966 --> 00:02:17,266 - Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 42 00:02:18,533 --> 00:02:19,933 It's a life, there's some things I've done 43 00:02:19,933 --> 00:02:22,700 when I was real young and some as I progress on. 44 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:23,933 Yes, it is. 45 00:02:23,933 --> 00:02:25,433 - Total immersion. 46 00:02:25,433 --> 00:02:29,966 I mean, you've got relief carving, you've got 3D carving, 47 00:02:29,966 --> 00:02:33,600 you've got whimsical carving, you've got canes. 48 00:02:34,833 --> 00:02:38,133 You turn it out, and it's all beautiful. 49 00:02:38,133 --> 00:02:39,366 - Well, thank you very much. 50 00:02:39,366 --> 00:02:40,266 - Yeah. 51 00:02:40,266 --> 00:02:43,200 What got you on this path? 52 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:44,333 - I don't know. 53 00:02:44,333 --> 00:02:46,833 Many, of course, when I was a kid, 54 00:02:46,833 --> 00:02:49,766 we played a lot outside, you know, you got to do all that. 55 00:02:49,766 --> 00:02:51,333 - Yeah, my mother put us out- - So I-- 56 00:02:51,333 --> 00:02:52,466 - And she'd lock the door. - Right, go on outside, yeah. 57 00:02:52,466 --> 00:02:53,833 - Yeah. (both chuckle) 58 00:02:53,833 --> 00:02:55,466 - We, I'd just walk in the woods 59 00:02:55,466 --> 00:02:57,366 and be looking for little sticks or something like that, 60 00:02:57,366 --> 00:02:58,733 and something would catch your eye, 61 00:02:58,733 --> 00:03:01,566 maybe a little 90 degree or something angle, 62 00:03:01,566 --> 00:03:03,800 and of course, at that time, we always had a pocket knife, 63 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,900 we could always carry a pocket knife, still carry one, 64 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:11,400 and so you just kind of start whittling as it began. 65 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,500 Whittling is what it starts out, 66 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:15,500 and it just kind of progressed from that. 67 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:18,966 Then one Christmas, my uncle was from Pennsylvania 68 00:03:18,966 --> 00:03:22,800 and he sent me an Exacto set, little Exacto knives. 69 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:24,766 It's got the handle and the different blades. 70 00:03:24,766 --> 00:03:26,033 - [Charles] Mm-hmm. 71 00:03:26,033 --> 00:03:27,533 - And that's kind of how it kind of got started. 72 00:03:27,533 --> 00:03:29,166 I was able to do different things with that 73 00:03:29,166 --> 00:03:31,566 other than what you could do with a pocket knife. 74 00:03:31,566 --> 00:03:32,866 - Mm-hmm. - And it kind of just 75 00:03:32,866 --> 00:03:34,566 progressed from that. 76 00:03:34,566 --> 00:03:36,300 Then as time went on, 77 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:39,300 I think the first relief carving I ever did 78 00:03:39,300 --> 00:03:44,266 was the praying hands, my hands, for my mother. 79 00:03:45,233 --> 00:03:46,466 - [Charles] Mm-hmm. 80 00:03:46,466 --> 00:03:48,000 - I don't think, I can't remember right now 81 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,466 whether they're still up there or not, 82 00:03:49,466 --> 00:03:52,466 but anyway, how hard it is to carve your own hands 83 00:03:52,466 --> 00:03:53,433 and look at 'em and. 84 00:03:55,566 --> 00:03:56,966 (Charles laughs) 85 00:03:56,966 --> 00:03:59,766 It got quite drastic, but anyway, it come out good 86 00:03:59,766 --> 00:04:02,366 for what I did to learn from. 87 00:04:02,366 --> 00:04:04,100 - Yeah. - Then as it progressed, 88 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:09,066 when I went in the Navy, we was on a repair ship, 89 00:04:10,533 --> 00:04:11,866 which had all kind of stuff, anything you could think. 90 00:04:11,866 --> 00:04:13,933 It had a wood shop, it had a metal shop, 91 00:04:13,933 --> 00:04:16,233 just anything you wanted, foundries, 92 00:04:16,233 --> 00:04:19,233 and that's where I did the last supper up here. 93 00:04:19,233 --> 00:04:20,200 - [Charles] Mm-hmm. 94 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,333 - Had a little painting of it, 95 00:04:22,333 --> 00:04:25,266 and those were done with scalpels. 96 00:04:25,266 --> 00:04:28,733 There was a medical store room below our workshop 97 00:04:28,733 --> 00:04:33,133 where we rewound motors and stuff, and they had a fire, 98 00:04:33,133 --> 00:04:34,600 so you had to get all that stuff out there. 99 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,200 Well, it just so happened, 100 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,266 a package of those blades and a handle fell out on our deck, 101 00:04:40,266 --> 00:04:42,933 and I picked them up, and then I got in good cahoots 102 00:04:42,933 --> 00:04:44,333 with the corpsman that were on there, 103 00:04:44,333 --> 00:04:47,533 so I was able to get more blades and stuff, and. 104 00:04:47,533 --> 00:04:50,266 It took me three years to do that little thing up there, 105 00:04:50,266 --> 00:04:53,300 so that's, it kind of progressed from that. 106 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:55,100 Then when I got, of course, got out of the Navy 107 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:59,466 and started working, it'd be different things would come up. 108 00:04:59,466 --> 00:05:03,133 Then every now, I don't remember how long it would be, 109 00:05:03,133 --> 00:05:08,100 I started to take classes from different carvers, 110 00:05:09,300 --> 00:05:12,300 or maybe go to a, what do you call it? 111 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:15,000 Not yard sale, but craft shows, 112 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,100 and see different people and watch 'em and sit there 113 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:20,500 and just be, you know, I was fascinated by them. 114 00:05:20,500 --> 00:05:22,066 So it just kind of went from there 115 00:05:22,066 --> 00:05:24,733 and just kept growing and growing and growing. 116 00:05:24,733 --> 00:05:28,700 Then after a long period of time, 117 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:31,200 of course, I started doing more and more reliefs, 118 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,533 and one of our fellow carvers was an instructor 119 00:05:34,533 --> 00:05:39,266 at different schools around Alabama and Tennessee and stuff, 120 00:05:39,266 --> 00:05:44,166 and the guy that did the relief carving, he retired. 121 00:05:45,433 --> 00:05:46,933 and they wanted to know if I wanted to try it. 122 00:05:46,933 --> 00:05:49,966 So I bit the bullet and did, 123 00:05:49,966 --> 00:05:52,100 and the first carving I ever taught 124 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:54,666 with that was a lighthouse. 125 00:05:54,666 --> 00:05:59,100 And there was a, what impressed me more than anything else, 126 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:00,900 I was a lot younger then, too, 127 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:03,800 but there was a retired Presbyterian preacher there, 128 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:08,366 he was 76 years old, he out-carved every carver there, 129 00:06:08,366 --> 00:06:10,766 and the rest of 'em were a lot younger than he was. 130 00:06:10,766 --> 00:06:12,833 But anyway, just given me that thought 131 00:06:12,833 --> 00:06:16,333 of being able to tell him what to do, how to do it, 132 00:06:16,333 --> 00:06:19,800 what to do, and kind of get him in the general direction. 133 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,500 And I keep telling people on this is, 134 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:26,100 when I'm in the process of teaching relief carving 135 00:06:26,100 --> 00:06:28,033 at different places-- - What is relief carving? 136 00:06:28,033 --> 00:06:30,166 - Carving into a piece of wood, 137 00:06:30,166 --> 00:06:34,566 rather than what we call in the round. 138 00:06:34,566 --> 00:06:38,266 In the round means, like pick, for instance, a duck. 139 00:06:38,266 --> 00:06:39,933 You can take that duck and carve him, 140 00:06:39,933 --> 00:06:41,433 you carve all the sides of him, that's in the round. 141 00:06:41,433 --> 00:06:43,000 - A three-dimensional duck. 142 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,366 - Three-dimensional duck, right. 143 00:06:44,366 --> 00:06:45,666 Now, in relief carving, 144 00:06:45,666 --> 00:06:47,933 you're only carving the front side of it, 145 00:06:47,933 --> 00:06:49,866 or supposedly the front side of it, 146 00:06:49,866 --> 00:06:54,833 but you have to look, you gotta look at it in the round. 147 00:06:55,766 --> 00:06:57,300 - And you're giving it depth. 148 00:06:57,300 --> 00:06:58,866 - You're giving it depth, and that hasn't (indistinct). 149 00:06:58,866 --> 00:07:03,100 It may not be a 16th of an inch, 150 00:07:03,100 --> 00:07:05,166 but just the way you can do it can make it look 151 00:07:05,166 --> 00:07:07,200 like it's deeper than what it actually is. 152 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,500 Eighth of an inch or whatever. 153 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:10,333 - Wow. 154 00:07:10,333 --> 00:07:11,466 - So it's. - Yeah. 155 00:07:11,466 --> 00:07:12,866 - Your imagination goes with you. 156 00:07:12,866 --> 00:07:16,066 Of course, people say that it's up here. 157 00:07:16,066 --> 00:07:17,266 I don't-- 158 00:07:17,266 --> 00:07:19,566 - So where do you get your up here? 159 00:07:19,566 --> 00:07:23,500 - Well, this particular one right here, 160 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:28,400 I happened to be in TSC, and. 161 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:29,833 - [Charles] What is that? 162 00:07:31,033 --> 00:07:32,700 - Tractor Supply Company. - All right. 163 00:07:32,700 --> 00:07:35,133 - And they had birthday cards there, 164 00:07:35,133 --> 00:07:38,133 and when I walked by, I saw this mountain stream, 165 00:07:38,133 --> 00:07:40,533 not the dirt, everything that's added to it, 166 00:07:40,533 --> 00:07:42,633 but the stream of the mountain come off, 167 00:07:42,633 --> 00:07:44,333 and I thought, hmm. 168 00:07:44,333 --> 00:07:48,000 I bought the card, and then took it home, 169 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,366 and then I started playing with it 170 00:07:49,366 --> 00:07:50,666 and adding to it and stuff, 171 00:07:50,666 --> 00:07:52,600 so that's where a lot of ideas come from. 172 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,600 Cards, magazines, everything. 173 00:07:57,866 --> 00:07:59,300 - You see a picture- - Yeah. 174 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:00,866 - That catches your eye- - Right. 175 00:08:00,866 --> 00:08:03,666 - And you start, you know, what can I do with this? 176 00:08:03,666 --> 00:08:05,266 - Yes. - Yeah. 177 00:08:05,266 --> 00:08:09,400 - I'm not, of course you have to be careful with copyrights. 178 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,433 I can't copy my own work, much less somebody else's. 179 00:08:12,433 --> 00:08:13,766 (Charles laughs) 180 00:08:13,766 --> 00:08:16,500 And to me, it's a gift of God on top of that, 181 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:18,000 the way I look at it, 182 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,766 but a lot of things. 183 00:08:21,766 --> 00:08:23,233 There's nothing out there 184 00:08:23,233 --> 00:08:27,766 that hasn't been printed, painted, carved, whatever. 185 00:08:28,866 --> 00:08:29,800 Somebody's done something somewhere, 186 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,266 so I don't own anything. 187 00:08:32,266 --> 00:08:34,766 I don't own any of these ideas and stuff, 188 00:08:34,766 --> 00:08:36,933 it's just something that works. 189 00:08:36,933 --> 00:08:38,966 - It's kind of composition. 190 00:08:38,966 --> 00:08:40,333 You select some elements 191 00:08:40,333 --> 00:08:42,266 and you pull them together- - Right. 192 00:08:42,266 --> 00:08:44,533 Yeah. - To tell a story or 193 00:08:44,533 --> 00:08:47,600 to paint a vision that you have. 194 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:49,633 - Right. It's just like. 195 00:08:49,633 --> 00:08:51,666 (chuckles) The worst part about it, 196 00:08:51,666 --> 00:08:54,533 wood carvers are observed as, 197 00:08:54,533 --> 00:08:58,333 are not qualified as artists, we're crafters. 198 00:08:58,333 --> 00:09:00,033 - I think the idea of art 199 00:09:01,366 --> 00:09:06,000 or an artist is an individual thing. 200 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,600 Like when I tell you that, 201 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,466 Randy, you're a tremendous artist. 202 00:09:12,466 --> 00:09:14,266 Well, that's my opinion. 203 00:09:14,266 --> 00:09:15,700 - Yeah. - And I think it's done 204 00:09:15,700 --> 00:09:17,166 cumulatively. 205 00:09:17,166 --> 00:09:20,733 If you hear something like that over and over again, 206 00:09:20,733 --> 00:09:23,166 it doesn't matter about the they, 207 00:09:23,166 --> 00:09:24,800 it's an individual thing. 208 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,166 - Yeah, it is. It is. - Yeah. 209 00:09:27,166 --> 00:09:29,733 - I don't go around patting myself on the back. 210 00:09:29,733 --> 00:09:31,966 I don't, it's just something that I enjoy doing, 211 00:09:31,966 --> 00:09:35,633 and my biggest enjoyment is teaching somebody else 212 00:09:35,633 --> 00:09:37,700 or try to show them how. - So you've been teaching 213 00:09:37,700 --> 00:09:40,066 for a good while, and I've run into, 214 00:09:40,066 --> 00:09:43,266 actually, I think I met you 215 00:09:43,266 --> 00:09:45,766 through a former student that. 216 00:09:45,766 --> 00:09:46,733 - Right. - Yes. 217 00:09:46,733 --> 00:09:48,033 - Yes, yes, you did. 218 00:09:48,033 --> 00:09:49,433 You sure did. 219 00:09:49,433 --> 00:09:53,533 - And he said, "Well, you've got a great wood carver 220 00:09:53,533 --> 00:09:56,133 just down the road from your house, 221 00:09:56,133 --> 00:09:59,300 and his name is Randy Walters." 222 00:09:59,300 --> 00:10:01,266 And I called you up and. 223 00:10:01,266 --> 00:10:02,866 - Yeah, it went from there, yes. 224 00:10:02,866 --> 00:10:04,833 - Yeah. - Yes, it was embarrassing. 225 00:10:04,833 --> 00:10:06,766 (both chuckle) 226 00:10:06,766 --> 00:10:10,400 - No, that's a great form of flattery. 227 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:12,433 - It is. It's a compliment. 228 00:10:12,433 --> 00:10:14,100 It's a compliment when somebody wants to, 229 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:15,233 "Can I take a picture?" 230 00:10:15,233 --> 00:10:17,166 I said, go right ahead, fine. 231 00:10:17,166 --> 00:10:19,100 I mean, it's just... 232 00:10:19,100 --> 00:10:23,633 And then I kid people, I say, especially ladies. 233 00:10:23,633 --> 00:10:25,333 We'll go up and somebody will say something about that. 234 00:10:25,333 --> 00:10:27,566 I said, "Have you ever carved before?" 235 00:10:27,566 --> 00:10:29,800 "Well, no. I don't know how." 236 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,733 I says, "Do you cook?" 237 00:10:32,966 --> 00:10:33,966 "Well, yeah." 238 00:10:33,966 --> 00:10:35,833 "Have you ever peeled a potato?" 239 00:10:35,833 --> 00:10:36,833 "Yeah." 240 00:10:36,833 --> 00:10:37,766 I said, "Well, that's carving. 241 00:10:37,766 --> 00:10:39,366 You may not believe that. 242 00:10:39,366 --> 00:10:42,366 And the next time you're in the kitchen by yourself, 243 00:10:42,366 --> 00:10:43,700 take your knife and peel. 244 00:10:43,700 --> 00:10:46,400 You can carve a little fish, a little bear, 245 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,633 and if it doesn't work out, you make french fries out of it. 246 00:10:48,633 --> 00:10:51,200 Nobody's the wiser, so." (Charles laughs) 247 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:52,500 So you have a little humor, 248 00:10:52,500 --> 00:10:54,433 you'll have a little humor with it, too. 249 00:10:54,433 --> 00:10:55,600 - There you go. - But you'd be surprised 250 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,400 what you can do if you want to. 251 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,000 Not everybody can build a chair, 252 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,633 nobody could be a mechanic and do this kind of stuff. 253 00:11:05,633 --> 00:11:08,433 - Go down to your shop. 254 00:11:08,433 --> 00:11:09,866 - Okay. - And watch you 255 00:11:09,866 --> 00:11:11,800 get outside the lines a little bit. 256 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:12,833 - Hmm, okay. 257 00:11:12,833 --> 00:11:14,700 (both laugh) 258 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:16,166 - Let's go. 259 00:11:16,166 --> 00:11:17,866 - I'll bring my Band-Aids, okie doke, we'll do that. 260 00:11:19,133 --> 00:11:22,333 (light cheerful music) 261 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:33,133 (light cheerful music continues) 262 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,166 - Randy, I think we're in your happy zone down here. 263 00:11:45,166 --> 00:11:46,600 - That it is. 264 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:48,433 I can come down here and the whole world disappears. 265 00:11:48,433 --> 00:11:50,233 If I'm hurting, I got a headache, 266 00:11:50,233 --> 00:11:51,466 it don't make any difference. 267 00:11:51,466 --> 00:11:52,733 Just come on down and start carving. 268 00:11:52,733 --> 00:11:54,300 - Well, there you go. 269 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:58,866 Now, recently, you had some adversity, some health problems. 270 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:02,000 Tell us about that. - I did. 271 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:03,566 It was stupid on my part. 272 00:12:03,566 --> 00:12:05,866 I went up and out in the garage looking for something 273 00:12:05,866 --> 00:12:09,100 and come down the steps and missed the bottom step. 274 00:12:09,100 --> 00:12:10,766 Twitched my knee. 275 00:12:10,766 --> 00:12:12,533 My left knee was on the third step, 276 00:12:12,533 --> 00:12:15,300 when my rear end was on the floor. 277 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:17,333 So I went to orthopedic to have it X-rayed 278 00:12:17,333 --> 00:12:18,866 and nothing broke, nothing dead, 279 00:12:18,866 --> 00:12:20,300 but it just continued to get worse 280 00:12:20,300 --> 00:12:22,233 and they put me in a boot, 281 00:12:22,233 --> 00:12:25,066 and the boot caused my feet to act up. 282 00:12:25,066 --> 00:12:28,433 Unfortunately, my feet don't angle out, the boot does, 283 00:12:29,966 --> 00:12:31,833 and from there, it just kind of went from one to the other, 284 00:12:31,833 --> 00:12:34,166 of course, sitting around trying to take care of it, 285 00:12:34,166 --> 00:12:36,366 and that got boresome. 286 00:12:36,366 --> 00:12:38,533 Then it wasn't long, I was in a wheelchair. 287 00:12:38,533 --> 00:12:41,933 I went from walker to wheelchair to crutches, 288 00:12:41,933 --> 00:12:43,466 trying to get back and forth 289 00:12:43,466 --> 00:12:46,566 from the back part of the house, the bedroom and stuff. 290 00:12:46,566 --> 00:12:48,500 Finally I got to thinking about it, 291 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:50,966 and was able to get to the front door without any problem, 292 00:12:50,966 --> 00:12:54,766 go down the steps, my wife would bring the truck around, 293 00:12:54,766 --> 00:12:57,433 she'd load me up and bring me to the basement, 294 00:12:57,433 --> 00:13:00,233 I'd load myself out into a chair and I'd roll in here, 295 00:13:00,233 --> 00:13:02,266 and I'd be in here happy all day long carving. 296 00:13:02,266 --> 00:13:03,800 I had something to do, 297 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,733 and it kept me from just being a couch potato 298 00:13:06,733 --> 00:13:08,466 and being bored to death, so. 299 00:13:08,466 --> 00:13:10,133 - Yeah, it's your therapy. 300 00:13:10,133 --> 00:13:11,433 Your work and your art- - It is. 301 00:13:11,433 --> 00:13:13,766 - Is your therapy. - It is. It really is. 302 00:13:13,766 --> 00:13:15,033 - Yeah. 303 00:13:15,033 --> 00:13:17,566 Everybody needs to find something like that. 304 00:13:17,566 --> 00:13:18,933 - They do that, they do that. 305 00:13:18,933 --> 00:13:21,466 And of course, people say, "When I retire, 306 00:13:21,466 --> 00:13:24,000 I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that." 307 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,266 That's fine if you want to, 308 00:13:25,266 --> 00:13:27,000 but it's the best thing to do is start. 309 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,633 If you want a hobby, start it now. 310 00:13:30,733 --> 00:13:32,000 Think about what you might wanna do. 311 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,333 There's several things you can go with. 312 00:13:33,333 --> 00:13:34,466 "I can't do that. I can't." 313 00:13:34,466 --> 00:13:36,166 Well, how do you know unless you try? 314 00:13:36,166 --> 00:13:37,500 - There you go. 315 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:40,666 - And just keep on and develop these feelings 316 00:13:40,666 --> 00:13:42,666 and stuff to work with. 317 00:13:42,666 --> 00:13:45,266 Been many a times, wife'll shop 318 00:13:45,266 --> 00:13:47,133 and I'll sit out in the truck and carve. 319 00:13:47,133 --> 00:13:49,733 It just passes the time and works out good. 320 00:13:49,733 --> 00:13:54,266 - Well, your current project are some gargoyles 321 00:13:54,266 --> 00:13:56,133 that you're doing for a castle, 322 00:13:56,133 --> 00:13:59,533 and we're gonna go to the castle a little bit later, 323 00:13:59,533 --> 00:14:04,300 and those gargoyles, some of 'em have dogs' heads. 324 00:14:04,300 --> 00:14:05,933 - Well, that's what's unusual, 325 00:14:05,933 --> 00:14:07,333 when people think about gargoyles, 326 00:14:07,333 --> 00:14:09,100 they think about the mysterical, 327 00:14:09,100 --> 00:14:12,633 the grotesque looking, wicked looking things, 328 00:14:12,633 --> 00:14:15,933 but they're really there for, supposed to be for good luck, 329 00:14:15,933 --> 00:14:17,966 some way just to keep the spirits away. 330 00:14:17,966 --> 00:14:22,933 But this gentleman raises Scottish Deerhounds, 331 00:14:26,133 --> 00:14:27,733 and that's what he wanted his gargoyles to look like. 332 00:14:27,733 --> 00:14:30,366 And these are in-house type deal. 333 00:14:30,366 --> 00:14:31,866 They're not outside in the weather, 334 00:14:31,866 --> 00:14:35,100 they're actually in his, the upper level of the castle. 335 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:38,800 - They're architectural gargoyles for the interior. 336 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,033 - Correct, it is. It is that. 337 00:14:41,033 --> 00:14:42,066 And it was a challenge. 338 00:14:42,066 --> 00:14:43,666 The type of wood was the, 339 00:14:45,933 --> 00:14:47,833 it was Douglas fir. 340 00:14:47,833 --> 00:14:49,700 It was a challenge, but it's working. 341 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:51,066 - He gave you something 342 00:14:51,066 --> 00:14:52,866 to kind of work toward. - He did do that. 343 00:14:52,866 --> 00:14:56,900 This is a casting of his dog that he had casting on. 344 00:14:56,900 --> 00:14:58,566 He's very protective of that, 345 00:14:58,566 --> 00:15:00,833 (laughs) so I don't wanna break it, that's for sure. 346 00:15:00,833 --> 00:15:02,100 - Mm-hmm. - But the hair, 347 00:15:02,100 --> 00:15:03,800 the hair and everything on here, 348 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,333 and of course this particular one here is 349 00:15:06,333 --> 00:15:09,100 with the dog's ears laid back, 350 00:15:09,100 --> 00:15:11,266 and showing the inside of the ear, 351 00:15:11,266 --> 00:15:13,466 not just the outside flap. - Yeah. 352 00:15:13,466 --> 00:15:15,333 - So that creates more illusion. 353 00:15:15,333 --> 00:15:17,800 So I went next door, and the other dog were down there, 354 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,333 and I asked the lady if she'd mind holding it 355 00:15:19,333 --> 00:15:21,233 while we took some pictures of the inside of his ear, 356 00:15:21,233 --> 00:15:24,033 so I've got that to go by, so. - (laughs) Yeah. 357 00:15:24,033 --> 00:15:27,300 So you're working on one of these right now. 358 00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:28,300 - Correct. I am. 359 00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:29,800 The hair and everything, 360 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:31,066 I mean, even though the ears are different on this one, 361 00:15:31,066 --> 00:15:33,333 but the hair and everything else on this one 362 00:15:33,333 --> 00:15:35,400 will be established pretty well like that, 363 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:37,300 'cause they have a, like a little goatee 364 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:39,000 on the bottom of his chin. 365 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,166 - Well, you have pencil lines everywhere. 366 00:15:41,166 --> 00:15:44,100 - Pencil lines, that's the most important part of the. 367 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:45,833 They're guidelines, 368 00:15:45,833 --> 00:15:49,400 and when I'm teaching carving, I make a point of it. 369 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,933 I says, "When you put that pencil line on there, 370 00:15:51,933 --> 00:15:53,166 don't carve it off. 371 00:15:53,166 --> 00:15:55,200 If you carve it off, put it back, 372 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:56,800 'cause if you carve it off and I catch it, 373 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,400 that's gonna cost you 50 cents." 374 00:15:58,400 --> 00:15:59,966 (Charles laughs) 375 00:15:59,966 --> 00:16:02,300 I never collected yet, but they get the idea. 376 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:03,666 It does help, 377 00:16:03,666 --> 00:16:05,633 anytime you have a reference line to work with. 378 00:16:05,633 --> 00:16:07,033 - Yeah. Yeah. 379 00:16:07,033 --> 00:16:10,166 So you're trying to remove everything that's not- 380 00:16:10,166 --> 00:16:11,266 - Going to try to. - That dog. 381 00:16:11,266 --> 00:16:12,666 - It's mostly done with, 382 00:16:12,666 --> 00:16:15,733 well, I use not only using gouges and the mallet, 383 00:16:15,733 --> 00:16:18,966 I also use power, which is with a grinder or sander 384 00:16:18,966 --> 00:16:22,233 or anything like that to help establish that. 385 00:16:22,233 --> 00:16:24,966 So there's no sense of worrying about a whole lot of stuff 386 00:16:24,966 --> 00:16:26,500 when you've got the tools to work with, 387 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:28,166 so it works out. 388 00:16:28,166 --> 00:16:29,966 - I wanna see how it works. - It works out pretty good. 389 00:16:29,966 --> 00:16:32,866 (mallet tapping) 390 00:16:32,866 --> 00:16:36,466 The biggest thing is, you block everything out. 391 00:16:36,466 --> 00:16:38,400 You don't try to put any details to it, 392 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:39,966 you know, the nostril, 393 00:16:39,966 --> 00:16:41,800 you don't wanna put the holes in the nose, 394 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,400 'cause it may not be there when you get ready for it. 395 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,000 The eyes are one of the last things that gives it life. 396 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,266 - Mm-hmm. - And that's the last thing 397 00:16:49,266 --> 00:16:51,366 you put into it on that part, 398 00:16:51,366 --> 00:16:53,700 'cause things, if something goes wrong, 399 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:55,866 I got enough material here 400 00:16:55,866 --> 00:16:59,333 that I can put everything back a little bit. 401 00:16:59,333 --> 00:17:02,100 Say there was the end of the nose broke off. 402 00:17:02,100 --> 00:17:03,333 I was able to come in here 403 00:17:03,333 --> 00:17:05,100 and I can shorten this up a little bit 404 00:17:05,100 --> 00:17:06,900 and push the head back a little bit 405 00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:10,400 and make it a little smaller, and it'll still look uniform 406 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,000 or more like the dog that I'm looking for. 407 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,900 (mallet tapping) 408 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:19,866 - And if you had to, you could create a flat, 409 00:17:21,033 --> 00:17:21,900 and you could glue on another block- 410 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:23,066 - Exactly right. 411 00:17:23,066 --> 00:17:23,966 There's nothing wrong. - And try again. 412 00:17:23,966 --> 00:17:25,766 - Try again. (laughs) 413 00:17:25,766 --> 00:17:29,733 - We'll look on a gargoyle over at the castle. 414 00:17:29,733 --> 00:17:31,033 - [Randy] I'm anxious to do that, too. 415 00:17:31,033 --> 00:17:33,033 - Let's go. - Let's go. All right. 416 00:17:33,033 --> 00:17:38,000 - This castle has what's called a hammer beam timber frame. 417 00:17:38,933 --> 00:17:39,900 - Right. - You would expect 418 00:17:39,900 --> 00:17:42,066 something like this, and. 419 00:17:42,066 --> 00:17:44,900 - You would, but, you know, trying to think 420 00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:47,966 how they did this kind of work 421 00:17:47,966 --> 00:17:50,500 with the material they had and the equipment they had, 422 00:17:50,500 --> 00:17:51,766 but it's beautiful. 423 00:17:51,766 --> 00:17:55,133 - Yeah, well, you didn't build the timber frame, 424 00:17:55,133 --> 00:18:00,066 but you have a part of this that is really interesting. 425 00:18:00,066 --> 00:18:00,866 - Well, thank you. 426 00:18:02,233 --> 00:18:04,133 It was a thing of the heart 427 00:18:04,133 --> 00:18:06,066 to accomplish what we're trying to do 428 00:18:06,066 --> 00:18:08,266 with the animals and stuff. 429 00:18:08,266 --> 00:18:10,333 - Well, it's a gargoyle, 430 00:18:10,333 --> 00:18:14,000 but it's an interior, architectural gargoyle. 431 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,266 - That is true, and the gentleman, 432 00:18:16,266 --> 00:18:18,500 instead of gargoyles being grotesque, 433 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:20,100 like you see a lot of pictures and stuff, 434 00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:24,400 these were his images of his dogs and some of the animals 435 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:28,333 that he has raised and kept and worked with. 436 00:18:28,333 --> 00:18:29,700 - And they're in an interesting place. 437 00:18:29,700 --> 00:18:31,833 Let's go see one. - All right. 438 00:18:31,833 --> 00:18:36,333 - Wow, this is really something, and it's hanging off 439 00:18:36,333 --> 00:18:40,900 of a Douglas fir piece of timber frame here. 440 00:18:40,900 --> 00:18:43,366 How many of these are there? 441 00:18:43,366 --> 00:18:46,166 - There's eight arches, and that's what we did, 442 00:18:46,166 --> 00:18:49,400 we kind of put all the arches, an animal on each one of 'em, 443 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:50,866 a gargoyle on each one of 'em. 444 00:18:50,866 --> 00:18:53,566 - And this part is pretty much the same on each one. 445 00:18:53,566 --> 00:18:56,566 - It is the same, because you only had so much wood 446 00:18:56,566 --> 00:18:59,333 to work with, so they pretty well designed out, 447 00:18:59,333 --> 00:19:02,400 and the heads themselves were carved in place, 448 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:07,366 but as it progressed on, they wanted to be able to turn it, 449 00:19:08,233 --> 00:19:10,800 so we did that to help it. 450 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:15,766 Not only that, since these dogs mostly all look alike, 451 00:19:16,633 --> 00:19:19,133 these Scottish Deerhounds, 452 00:19:19,133 --> 00:19:21,533 we're able to remove the head 453 00:19:23,066 --> 00:19:27,366 and add another carved head of a different animal, or, 454 00:19:27,366 --> 00:19:32,366 this one happened to be a dog that he had for 19 years, 455 00:19:33,700 --> 00:19:36,166 and this is what he wanted on his part of that. 456 00:19:36,166 --> 00:19:37,866 - That is just outstanding. 457 00:19:37,866 --> 00:19:40,800 And you've been working on a whole group of them over here. 458 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,366 - Oh, yes, each one of 'em done. 459 00:19:43,366 --> 00:19:46,233 If I did work on one, if I did the wings on one, 460 00:19:46,233 --> 00:19:48,300 I did all the wings at the same time 461 00:19:48,300 --> 00:19:49,933 where everything would be consistent 462 00:19:49,933 --> 00:19:51,933 as much as close as possible. 463 00:19:51,933 --> 00:19:52,833 - Well, let's go look at 'em. 464 00:19:52,833 --> 00:19:54,133 - All right. 465 00:19:54,133 --> 00:19:57,033 - Randy, here we have five of the collection, 466 00:19:57,033 --> 00:20:00,766 plus the one hanging off the timber frame over there. 467 00:20:00,766 --> 00:20:02,433 You have one at your house. 468 00:20:02,433 --> 00:20:03,366 - I do, that. 469 00:20:03,366 --> 00:20:05,233 - And then there is an original. 470 00:20:05,233 --> 00:20:07,033 - There is an original here, right here, 471 00:20:07,033 --> 00:20:08,500 close to here, someplace, 472 00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:12,066 but anyway, it's, I don't know really the age of it, 473 00:20:12,066 --> 00:20:14,533 but it's, as you can see, it is a gargoyle. 474 00:20:14,533 --> 00:20:16,900 I mean, the carving on it is something else. 475 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:19,266 It's not real delicate or anything like that, 476 00:20:19,266 --> 00:20:21,833 then right in the front of it, it's got a great big scroll 477 00:20:21,833 --> 00:20:25,100 that comes down in front of him with airspace in between it, 478 00:20:25,100 --> 00:20:28,533 and it is, it's a masterpiece. 479 00:20:28,533 --> 00:20:29,633 It really is. 480 00:20:29,633 --> 00:20:32,333 - But these are masterpieces, too, 481 00:20:32,333 --> 00:20:36,733 and they're gonna look just great in this setting. 482 00:20:36,733 --> 00:20:39,600 Wow. How long have you been working on this? 483 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,033 - I believe I started, it's been somewhere 484 00:20:42,033 --> 00:20:44,366 between eight and 10 months, 485 00:20:44,366 --> 00:20:46,733 the time I started and laid 'em out 486 00:20:46,733 --> 00:20:48,100 and started carving on 'em. 487 00:20:48,100 --> 00:20:51,400 It was an almost an everyday job, 488 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,000 either an hour or two, couple hours at a time, 489 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,266 but then trying to duplicate it each time I went through it. 490 00:20:57,266 --> 00:20:59,400 - Mm-hmm, and a great way to duplicate is 491 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:00,800 put 'em next to each other. 492 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,566 - Put 'em next to each other, keep 'em close by, 493 00:21:02,566 --> 00:21:05,400 because what you think you see, if you don't. 494 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,066 I'm a visual person. 495 00:21:07,066 --> 00:21:08,300 I have to see something. 496 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,566 What's up in here, I don't really wanna talk about that. 497 00:21:12,566 --> 00:21:14,400 (both chuckle) 498 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,466 But anyway, it's where you can compare 499 00:21:17,466 --> 00:21:18,766 if you're gonna try to make. 500 00:21:18,766 --> 00:21:22,533 I can't even duplicate my own work, period. 501 00:21:22,533 --> 00:21:23,933 As far as the detail and stuff, 502 00:21:23,933 --> 00:21:27,166 each time you do something, it's a little different. 503 00:21:27,166 --> 00:21:29,533 - Yeah, the wood is different, the grain's different 504 00:21:29,533 --> 00:21:30,700 all of a sudden- - Yes, it is. 505 00:21:30,700 --> 00:21:31,633 - In a certain spot. - Yes, it is. 506 00:21:31,633 --> 00:21:33,333 And this Douglas fir was rough. 507 00:21:34,700 --> 00:21:38,000 It's not something like basswood, which is close grain. 508 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,966 The grain on this runs like, 509 00:21:39,966 --> 00:21:43,333 where you can see the ends of it, how long the grains is, 510 00:21:43,333 --> 00:21:45,733 and when you go to cross grain with carving, 511 00:21:45,733 --> 00:21:48,100 it'll tear on you if you're not careful. 512 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:52,033 So some of this wood, most of it, not only done manually, 513 00:21:52,033 --> 00:21:56,166 it's done also with a grinder or something like this. 514 00:21:56,166 --> 00:21:58,633 - Randy, there are lots of projects here 515 00:21:58,633 --> 00:22:00,666 in the Renaissance castle, 516 00:22:00,666 --> 00:22:04,466 and another one is this French staircase. 517 00:22:04,466 --> 00:22:06,933 - Yes, yes. - It's a spiral. 518 00:22:06,933 --> 00:22:08,200 Tell us about it. 519 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,100 - Well, when he first told me about it, 520 00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:12,200 it just kind of blew my mind. 521 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:13,533 It was sitting out in the garage, 522 00:22:13,533 --> 00:22:15,500 of course somebody had it stored for him, 523 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:17,633 nasty, dirty and all that stuff, 524 00:22:17,633 --> 00:22:20,333 but there was a lot of pieces missing here 525 00:22:20,333 --> 00:22:23,366 that had broken out over the years, hadn't been repaired. 526 00:22:23,366 --> 00:22:26,133 This was the only piece right here that was complete, 527 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:30,000 and it's actually, the way I was being described, 528 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,400 it's actually another piece in here 529 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,300 that's carved the same way, but it's upside down, 530 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:37,300 so it kind of plays on your mind a little bit. 531 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:40,600 So we had to go in and design, 532 00:22:41,966 --> 00:22:46,566 the man that owns this had a computer guy come in 533 00:22:46,566 --> 00:22:49,333 and design what could have been in there, 534 00:22:49,333 --> 00:22:52,733 so then we took that and take the patterns that we drew up 535 00:22:52,733 --> 00:22:54,333 and what he showed me in photographs, 536 00:22:54,333 --> 00:22:56,133 lot a lot of photographs, 537 00:22:56,133 --> 00:22:57,433 and then went from there 538 00:22:57,433 --> 00:23:00,166 to replace the pieces that were missing 539 00:23:00,166 --> 00:23:03,300 and try to make 'em look like what came out of there. 540 00:23:03,300 --> 00:23:07,133 To clean this, it was actually done by hand. 541 00:23:07,133 --> 00:23:12,100 Done it with a Scotch-Brite buffing pad on a mandrel 542 00:23:13,566 --> 00:23:15,666 to clean the dust and the dirt and the filth off of it 543 00:23:15,666 --> 00:23:17,666 without doing any damage to it. 544 00:23:17,666 --> 00:23:19,233 It looked like you wanna pressure wash it. 545 00:23:19,233 --> 00:23:20,733 Well, you couldn't do that. - Mm-hmm, right. 546 00:23:20,733 --> 00:23:23,200 - That would not treat the wood, as old as that is, 547 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,133 it wouldn't take the pressure. 548 00:23:25,133 --> 00:23:28,800 But then come back and try to complete the stain 549 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,866 which was on there, not knowing what they used, 550 00:23:31,866 --> 00:23:35,033 and just to blend it back in where it looks pretty close, 551 00:23:36,066 --> 00:23:37,166 and-- 552 00:23:37,166 --> 00:23:38,566 - Well, it looks better than close. 553 00:23:38,566 --> 00:23:40,566 What an amazing project. 554 00:23:40,566 --> 00:23:44,500 And so you've also done some linen fold carving here. 555 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:45,700 - Yes, I have. 556 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:47,733 Some of the panels that he had bought 557 00:23:47,733 --> 00:23:50,533 or found years and years and years ago, 558 00:23:50,533 --> 00:23:54,666 he had to, some of the ends were completely rotted off, 559 00:23:54,666 --> 00:23:58,100 so in order to put what he wanted to do in this bedstead, 560 00:23:58,100 --> 00:24:01,066 which we're gonna look at, had to cut 'em off 561 00:24:01,066 --> 00:24:04,866 and re-carve this end to match that end. 562 00:24:04,866 --> 00:24:09,700 So that was a, then also they were worm eating, worm eaten, 563 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:14,233 so we had to fill and try to contour those as the original, 564 00:24:14,233 --> 00:24:16,400 so it turned out real good. 565 00:24:17,366 --> 00:24:19,366 - Definitely a master's work. 566 00:24:19,366 --> 00:24:21,133 Many masters. - Many masters, 567 00:24:21,133 --> 00:24:24,433 and it's a privilege for me to work on this kind of stuff. 568 00:24:24,433 --> 00:24:27,833 I just, it thrills me, because trying to, in my mind, 569 00:24:27,833 --> 00:24:30,000 trying to figure out how they did all this stuff 570 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,633 with the tools that they had to work. 571 00:24:31,633 --> 00:24:33,966 Some of the tools that we have now, 572 00:24:33,966 --> 00:24:37,166 what they had then, they made everything, 573 00:24:37,166 --> 00:24:39,700 but they knew what they were doing. 574 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:40,800 - The craftsmanship. - Definitely. 575 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,666 - And you do, too. 576 00:24:42,666 --> 00:24:45,533 Well this is really outstanding. 577 00:24:45,533 --> 00:24:46,666 Thank you so much. 578 00:24:46,666 --> 00:24:47,566 - Well, you're more than welcome. 579 00:24:47,566 --> 00:24:48,500 You're more than. 580 00:24:48,500 --> 00:24:50,666 It was a job of love and labor. 581 00:24:50,666 --> 00:24:52,800 - 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